Profession cocoa mill operator

Cocoa mill operators tend machines to pulverise cacao beans into powder of specified fineness. They use air classification systems that separate powder based on its density. Moreover, they weigh, bag, and stack the product.

Personality Type

• Realistic / Conventional

Knowledge

• Mill operations

  Details of milling operations related to grind size, particle size distribution, heat evolution. Milling processes for different cereals and grains.

Skills

• Work in a food processing team

  Collaborate in a team with other food processing professionals in service of the food and beverages industry.

• Exert quality control to processing food

  Ensure the quality of all factors involved in a food production process.

• Apply HACCP

  Apply regulations regarding manufacture of food and food safety compliance. Employ food safety procedures based on Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP).

• Adhere to organisational guidelines

  Adhere to organisational or department specific standards and guidelines. Understand the motives of the organisation and the common agreements and act accordingly.

• Tend grinding mill machine

  Operate a grinding mill that grinds grains such as cereals, cocoa beans or coffee beans to obtain powders or pastes with different consistencies and grain sizes.

• Check processing parameters

  Check processing parameters to keep under control the technological processes.

• Analyse milled cocoa density

  Analyse milled cocoa density according to the requirements and product specifications. Apply findings to determine how much milling is needed to obtain the required fineness of the cocoa.

• Clean food and beverage machinery

  Clean machinery used for food or beverage production processes. Prepare the appropriate solutions for cleaning. Prepare all parts and assure that they are clean enough to avoid deviation or errors in the production process.

• Collect samples for analysis

  Collect samples of materials or products for laboratory analysis.

• Ensure public safety and security

  Implement the relevant procedures, strategies and use the proper equipment to promote local or national security activities for the protection of data, people, institutions, and property.

• Apply GMP

  Apply regulations regarding manufacture of food and food safety compliance. Employ food safety procedures based on Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).

• Apply requirements concerning manufacturing of food and beverages

  Apply and follow national, international, and internal requirements quoted in standards, regulations and other specifications related with manufacturing of food and beverages.

• Work in conveyor belts in food manufacturing

  Work in rotating conveyor belt systems in food manufacturing.

• Be at ease in unsafe environments

  Be at ease in unsafe environments like being exposed to dust, rotating equipment, hot surfaces, sub-freezing and cold storage areas, noise, wet floors and moving lift equipment.

• Operate weighing machine

  Work with a weighing machine to measure raw, half-finished and finished products.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB